Apology

The Financial Gazette, published a birthday congratulatory message to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by the Ministry of Defence and Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) with a serious error in its edition of last week.

At the end of the Ministry of Defence and ZDF birthday message, and through lapses in the production process, the newspaper ended up carrying mortifyingly wrong words instead of saying ‘MAKOROKOTO, AMHLOPHE, CONGRATULATIONS!’

We apologise profusely to President Mnangagwa, his family, his office, the government, the Ministry of Defence and to the ZDF for the anguish and inconvenience that this inadvertent mistake caused.

For the record, and to be absolutely clear, the error did not originate from the Ministry of Defence or the ZDF. It was our mistake.
We have taken action to strengthen our internal systems to ensure that this kind of error never occurs again.
Below we publish the correct advert from the Ministry of Defence and the ZDF. – Editor